Christina Gough
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Phoenix Suns - Statistics & Facts
The Phoenix Suns are a professional basketball team that compete in the National Basketball Association’s Western Conference Pacific Division. The team was established by an ownership group led by American entrepreneur Karl Eller, who paid a two million U.S. dollar entry fee to join the NBA as an expansion team in 1968.
The Suns play their home games at Talking Stick Resort Arena in downtown Phoenix. During the 2021/22 NBA season, the average regular season home attendance for a Suns game was 16,567, while the season’s total attendance amounted to 679,252. The team generated 302 million U.S. dollars in revenue during the 2021/22 season and, in the same season, the Suns' operating income amounted to around 87 million U.S. dollars. The franchise value of the Phoenix team stands at approximately 2.7 billion U.S. dollars and it is currently owned by Robert Sarver, who acquired the team in 2004 for a purchase price of over 400 million U.S. dollars.
The Suns have never won an NBA title, although they have so far appeared in three NBA finals in 1976, 1993, and 2021. The Suns have a combined total of around 3.4 million fans and followers on Facebook and Twitter.
The Suns play their home games at Talking Stick Resort Arena in downtown Phoenix. During the 2021/22 NBA season, the average regular season home attendance for a Suns game was 16,567, while the season’s total attendance amounted to 679,252. The team generated 302 million U.S. dollars in revenue during the 2021/22 season and, in the same season, the Suns' operating income amounted to around 87 million U.S. dollars. The franchise value of the Phoenix team stands at approximately 2.7 billion U.S. dollars and it is currently owned by Robert Sarver, who acquired the team in 2004 for a purchase price of over 400 million U.S. dollars.
The Suns have never won an NBA title, although they have so far appeared in three NBA finals in 1976, 1993, and 2021. The Suns have a combined total of around 3.4 million fans and followers on Facebook and Twitter.
